Giovanna Morigi
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Giovanna Morigi (born 1969) is a physicist whose research involves theoretical quantum mechanics, including quantum optics, Wigner crystals, laser cooling, and ultracold atoms.[1] Beyond fundamental physics, she has also published research on size control in biological tissue growth.[2] Born in Italy and educated in Austria, she works in Germany as a professor of theoretical physics at Saarland University.
Morigi was born in 1969 in Ravenna,[3] and was a student at the Liceo Scientifico "A. Oriani" in Ravenna.[1] After earning a laurea at the University of Pisa in 1995, and spending a year as a researcher at the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford,[4] she completed a PhD in 1999 at the University of Innsbruck.[5]
She became a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics from 2001 to 2002, continuing there as a research associate while taking a position as assistant professor at the University of Ulm from 2002 to 2004. She was a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona from 2004 to 2009, when she took her present position as a full professor at Saarland University.[4]
